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Quote by: Zee I believe that I have said previously that the cops can legally justify their actions, the point is that there were other, better ways to handle this situation without giving the kid everything he wanted in the first place, |
You keep saying this, but without any offering as to an alternative.
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The goal was to escort him out without giving him all the publicity that he so obviously wanted.
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WTF? Their goal? No. Their "goal" was to get the idiot to leave. The easy way, or the hard way. He chose the hard way, and they obliged. What makes you think they had a pre-set goal to not draw media attention? Sure, the guy wanted attention. That much is obvious. It is also inconsequential.
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They had the kid on the ground, and they had the crowd on their side UNTIL they tasered him unnecessarily.
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Many of the winesses voiced opposition to the idots stunt, and support of the cops. The shrill scream you hear on the video, is from his girlfreind. The witness statements paint a far different picture than what you are portrying.
A few witness statements;
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“Let me expand a bit since I was there:
Everything was going pretty well until this asshole showed up.
So here’s how it went: Kerry gave a speech for roughly 40-45 mins first, then a moderator asked him some questions followed by a Q&A session. Obviously not everyone could get to ask a question. So after 6 or so questions, the moderator says that we won’t be taking any more questions. This guy gets really pissed since he was standing next in line, and starting shouting and making a ruckus. I was sitting just a few rows in front of the mic".
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After the interrupted guy’s question was answered, Kerry keeps his promise and lets the angry guy talk. This is the point where people started taking their cameras and phones out. All the videos floating around youtube start around here. You can see in the videos that his questioning gets kind of inappropriate, so somebody cut his mic. Instead of shutting up, he starts yelling and making an even bigger scene. He struggled all the way up the aisle, and started violently trying to free himself. They threatened to taze him and he wouldnt stop fighting, so he got tazed. They only had to arrest him because he was causing a disruption and wouldn’t leave peacefully. He wasn’t being silenced for asking tough questions, trust me.
It’s a shame that they had to taze the guy, but he had a chance to calm down and didn’t take it. He probably didn’t pose a physical threat to anybody in the room, but someone can’t just hijack the floor of a forum like that and expect not to get kicked out. This wasn’t some poor guy who was brutalized for trying to ask some tough questions. He’s just an obnoxious guy who had a fit when there wasn’t time for his questions and refused to be calm even when he was given the chance to speak. He was looking for trouble, and everyone applauded when he was forced to leave.
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